The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859- · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 31
hisgreat model, for its ruins, still of considerable extent in thesixteenth century, afford but a scant basis for reconstruction.It was, at all events, based on a similar scheme of extensivevaulted construction. This entire field of superb structuralarchitecture I merely allude to, as it passes out… … Marble WaU-incrustation, Basilicaof Junius Bassus. THE CITY OF CONSTANTINE AND HONORIUS 21 tius^ in 315, appears to surpass the earlier arch of SeptimiusSeverus. This impression vanishes as we find, on analysis,that it lacks the unity of a single work and age; that it ismainly composed of the…
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